Elizabeth Smart Quotes

• Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Sleep, Trying, Tomorrow

  Elizabeth Smart (1945). “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals”, Vintage

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• We can choose to allow our experiences to hold us back, and to not allow us to become great or achieve greatness in this life. Or we can allow our experiences to push us forward, to make us grateful for every day we have and to be all the more thankful for those who are around us.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Grateful, Greatness, Achieve

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• It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Happens

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• There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Leadership, Wisdom, Pain

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• Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Grateful, Knowing, Trying

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• You will always have value and nothing can change that.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Values

  "Elizabeth Smart speaks on human trafficking". www.csmonitor.com. May 4, 2013.

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• I like to think that we’re not defined by what happens to us…because so many times they’re beyond our control. I like to think that we’re defined by our choices and our decisions.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Thinking, Choices, Decision

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• Life is a journey for us all. We all face trials. We all have ups and downs. All of us are human. But we are also the masters of our fate. We are the ones who decide how we are going to react to life.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Fate, Journey, Trials

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• I am possessed by love and have no options.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Possessed

  Elizabeth Smart (1945). “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals”, Vintage

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• All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Time, All Time, Can Do

  Elizabeth Smart (1945). “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals”, Vintage

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• Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

  Elizabeth Smart

  Stability, Interest, Remedy

  Elizabeth Smart, Alice Van Wart (1991). “Necessary secrets: the journals of Elizabeth Smart”, Grafton Books

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• I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Needs, I Have Learned, Smoke

  Elizabeth Smart (1945). “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals”, Vintage

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• Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Vanity, Earth, Way

  Elizabeth Smart, Alice Van Wart (1991). “Necessary secrets: the journals of Elizabeth Smart”, Grafton Books

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• But the human spirit is resilient. God made us so. He gave us the ability to forgive. To leave our past behind. To look forward instead of back.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Past, Forgiving, Looks

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• Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Talking, Feelings, Language

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• Yesterday from my office window I saw a crippled girl negotiating her way across the street, her shoulders squarely braced. At each jerky movement her hair flew back like an annunciatory angel, and I saw she was the only dancer on the street.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Girl, Angel, Hair

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• I am over-run, jungled in my bed, I am infested with a menagerie of desires: my heart is eaten by a dove, a cat scrambles in the cave of my sex, hounds in my bed obey a whipmaster who cries nothing but havoc as the hours test my endurance with an accumulation of tortures. Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders?

  Elizabeth Smart

  Running, Sex, Heart

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• What you forget is that plants themselves want to live as much as you want them to. More.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Life, Growth, Want

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• How can I be kind? How can I find bird-relief in the nest-building of day-to-day? Necessity supplies no velvet wing with which to escape. I am indeed and mortally pierced with the seeds of love.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Wings, Bird, Relief

  Elizabeth Smart (1945). “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals”, Vintage

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• Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Reform, Laziness, Way

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• O I know they make war because they want peace; they hate so that they may live; and they destroy the present to make the world safe for the future. When have they not done and said they did it for that?

  Elizabeth Smart

  Hate, War, Done

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• But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Soul, Speak, Shattered

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• I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Thinking, Tears, Hopeless

  Elizabeth Smart (1994). “On the Side of the Angels: The Second Volume of the Journals of Elizabeth Smart”, London : HarperCollins

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• Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just like all men. And they had some children who were just like all children. And it rained all day. The woman had to skewer the hole in the kitchen sink, when it was blocked up. The man went to the pub every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The other nights he mended his broken bicycle, did the pool coupons, and longed for money and power. The woman read love stories and longed for things to be different. The children fought and yelled and played and had scabs on their knees. In the end they all died.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Friday, Children, Sunday

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• I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me.

  Elizabeth Smart

  Doors, Looks, Crowds

  Elizabeth Smart (1945). “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals”, Vintage

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